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acknowledge the might of the Ancient Beauty, and see how He hath toppled
down the walls of discord, and how surely He hath guided all the peoples
of the earth to oneness; how He hath lit man's world, and made this earth
of dust to send forth streams of light.

These human creatures are even as children, they are brash and
unconcerned. These children must be reared with infinite, loving care, and
tenderly fostered in the embraces of mercy, so that they may taste the
spiritual honey-sweetness of God's love; that they may become like unto
candles shedding their beams across this darksome world, and may clearly
perceive what blazing crowns of glory the Most Great Name, the Ancient
Beauty, hath set on the brows of His beloved, what bounties He hath
bestowed on the hearts of those He holdeth dear, what a love He hath cast
into the breasts of humankind, and what treasures of friendship He hath
made to appear amongst all men.

O God, my God! Aid Thou Thy trusted servants to have loving and tender
hearts. Help them to spread, amongst all the nations of the earth, the
light of guidance that cometh from the Company on high. Verily Thou art
the Strong, the Powerful, the Mighty, the All-Subduing, the Ever-Giving.
Verily Thou art the Generous, the Gentle, the Tender, the Most Bountiful.

8: O YE BELOVED OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA AND YE HANDMAIDS OF ...

O ye beloved of 'Abdu'l-Baha and ye handmaids of the Merciful! It is early
morning, and the reviving winds of the Abha Paradise are blowing over all
creation, but they can stir only the pure of heart, and only the pure
sense can detect their fragrance. Only the perceiving eye beholdeth the
rays of the sun; only the listening ear can hear the singing of the
Concourse on high. Although the plentiful rains of spring, the bestowals
of Heaven, pour down upon all things, they can only fructify good soil;
they love not brackish ground, where no results of all the bounty can be
shown.

Today the soft and holy breathings of the Abha Realm are passing over
every land, but only the pure in heart draw nigh and derive a benefit
therefrom. It is the hope of this wronged soul that from the grace of the
Self-Subsistent One and by the manifest power of the Word of God, the
heads of the unmindful may be cleared, that they may perceive these sweet
savours which blow from secret rosebeds of the spirit.

O ye friends of God! True friends are even as skilled physicians, and the
Teachings of God ar